Water Your Worth

I thoroughly enjoy writing and I will admit that I have been putting out more blogs for a couple of reasons. 1) Blogging is an outlet that allows for my writing to continue while also freeing space from my thoughts 2) Sometimes the writing outlet is necessary because I tend to get overwhelmed as I work on my manuscript and 3) You just never know who needs to read what I have to share.

I find that often as I write my blogs I am very open on my own personal reflections and findings, inviting anyone who wants to come and see this with me. I have been on a very deep journey with my own self, life as a whole and even greater journey in becoming who I was made to be with our Father – I am no fool to looking at myself and the bigger picture all at once and in bites. I have found that typically the ones that have endured and overcome things (whether emotional or physical or all of the above) are the usual suspects that have greater capacity for compassion in knowing that we all go through hurt.

There is a constant that remains through any study… hurt people hurt people. Jesus tells us to love our enemies and pray for all just as He also prays for those that know Him and don’t yet. The greatest form of combat when being attacked is prayer and compassion. I listened to a story once about how a young man was brutally beat by a muslim for being a christian and the boy was left to be dead but something happened and he was miraculously kept alive. Years later this almost dead boy gets the chance to see his attacker and at this point the attacker had already had some Christ encounters and was saved. The boy who almost died was able to show this hurt person that hurt him how he never stopped praying for him and showed him in his bible how he wrote his name in there and how pleased he was to see that he had been saved. Who among you are able to hold a love like that? That is what means to walk the walk.

Why do I share all this? Well there have been a lot of hateful actions that have happened this week and even more hateful responses along with having my own “troll” type people send some comments on my youtube channel and I just feel this really deep level of pain mixed with love that is coming to the surface for me to address. You don’t put a fire out with more fire, you put a fire out with redirection or snuffing. We are not able to help others unless we can first acknowledge that how we response/react is more of a reflection of self than anything. For instance, I will honestly say that when I check in on someone who in turn ask me how I am doing I actually do not respond to their question other than, “we are good!” because ultimately we are and most importantly I want to make sure the attention stays on them and how I can continue to pray for them. I am very aware of how difficult our life is to most people to process and do not feel it fair to add to anything that they already experiencing because we are aaalll going through something, feeling a lot more than most let know and processing more than one is even aware of.

So as this week, this life continues and with very real reality that hurt is here and will continue to show up. I would like for your to join me in just simply stepping to the side of the firing and offer up a fire blanket instead. In what ways are you able to see through the ways people are and add compassion?